Kittyglitter's long-anticipated birthday pyjama boum this evening, with a fun extra twist: Bollywood! Pity I am too broke and body-image-fucked-up to have dressed the part, but I swore I would be there ( Read more... )

How quickly people forget.

--J

Super-bonus-Disco-extended-play back pain last night, decided to pop the other half of that muscle relaxant I split with Kittyglitter the other day. Assumed I'd have a sweet, brief slip into dreamtime and then a night of solid, relaxed and restful sleep. I was wrong ( Read more... )

Oh great, I have a new troll.

Nothing says love like stalkers, bullies and trolls.

--J

Ever get the feeling someone is sandbagging you? Maybe I'm being paranoid. I am willing to accept that the lengthy job search has put me a bit on edge. However ( Read more... )

Found out yest morn that I got passed over for yet another slam-dunk catalog production gig. After trying unsuccessfully for a couple of hours to get anything done - frustration, discouragement, anger, depression - I decided a field trip to the Farmers Market was needed ( Read more... )

So Creative Group calls me last week about a proofing gig with Gizzard--- three floors below where EW used to be, so I know the place. Couple months' contract work, 40 hrs/wk, cool, cool. But the client wanted to pay only $18 or so an hour. I asked whether the agency could get them up to at least $20* (I mean, COME ON ( Read more... )

Although the past week has produced bupkes workwise (three calls from two recruiters about three different positions I could do in my sleep, four other opportunities I'm still waiting, waiting, waiting to hear back about) I would just like to remind myself that I have done a lot in the name of kindness and caring for others. I have done many ( Read more... )

CV Poem
(or, How I Spend My Mornings)

Agencies
in Midtown
Downtown
Buckhead:
Do you not have any clients in
Midtown
Downtown
Buckhead?
How is it
that all your clients
appear to be in
Alpharetta
Suwanee
Vinings
Peachtree City?
Were I looking for
a gig way OTP,
I would have hooked up with
an agency
way
OTP.
Gas ain't free.

--J

I am so very frustrated and tired of being passed over for jobs and contract gigs I'm enormously qualified for and have decades of experience with.

There are a multitude of reasons and excuses for why this may be; I honestly lack the energy to list them. It just sucks.

--J